Navalny jailed outside Moscow

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sent to a prison outside Moscow to serve his sentence, his lawyer said yesterday, a move that comes despite a demand by Europe’s top human rights court for his release. Navalny lawyer Vadim Kobzev didn’t immediately say what prison he was sent to. Russian news reports have previously indicated that Navalny, who has been held in a maximum-security jail in Moscow, would likely be sent to a facility in western Russia. Navalny, 44, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vociferous foe, was arrested on January 17 upon returning from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.